I usually avoid watching screeners but I made the poor decision to watch this film on a DVD screener. It was a mistake. Alexander Payne always makes great films. Even his worst films are better than most. So I'm a moron for not seeing this on the big screen. One of my faves of the year.

a concept that would have been much better in the hands of yorgos lanthimos or even someone like charlie mcdowell. i was pretty intrigued while i was watching it, but it left a bad taste in my mouth afterwards. my original review was just gonna be “???” which pretty much sums it up

i was just starting to jot down some thoughts about this half-baked movie when i saw that don hertzfeldt released another still from WORLD OF TOMORROW: EPISODE 2 and i forgot that Downsizing ever happened.

except for Udo Kier. nobody forgets Udo Kier. he rules in this harder than he's ruled in a long time.

Really a half season before it's cancelled sit com that was made into a movie with several different episodes strung together. When they realized there was nothing funny, they decided to make it a commentary on how man has affected the climate. I first thought it was a procedural movie with the 10 minutes it took to shrink Matt Damon down. Literally, ten minutes of people shaving him and removing his fillings. I remember the trailers for this movie, it looked like a comedy. Remember the party with everybody tapping the bottle of vodka because it was so big? Yeah, none of those were in the movie. There were actually like only one or two site gags in a movie about people being shrunk down. Hong Chau clearly stole every scene she was in. Matt Damon really never had a chance as his character changes his motivation every 15 minutes.